Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
19 x 9.3cm, 2pp. A plan for an architectural and garden installation based on the 1967 Finlay poem Cytheria is shown on the front. The various element of the poem are to be planted or inscribed in stone in the garden. Never realised this is one of the very first 'proposals' by Finlay but we have decided to catalogue it as an artist's postcard due to its format.
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Bochum: Museum Bochum, 1979
26.4 x 21cm, 52pp plus card covers. Exhibition catalogue for a group show initially at the Museum Bochum, Germany, and later at the Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy. The artists include Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Agnetti, Anselmo, Antin, Arakawa, Baldassari, Bill Beckley, Boetti, Burgin, Ian Burn, Calzolari, Carpi, Chia, Chiari, Fulton, Gerz, Huebler, Kaprow, Kawara, Kosuth, Le Gac, Levine, Mario Merz, Annette Messager, Robert Morris, Nauman, Nonas, Oppenheim, Paolini, Pozzi, Salvo, Venet and Weiner. Each is given a section in the book with one b/w image.
Boltanski's contribution is a series of five photographs "Le Recit du Pere" from 1976. All are reproduced along with a short text in German and italian.
Some foxing to the inside wrappers else VG.
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Dunsyre: Wild Hawthorn Press, 1979
4.4 x 3.4cm, 4pp. Finlay's smallest folding card, this has a line drawing by Ivy Sky Rutzky on the front of a butterfly and inside a text:
A Red
Admiral
or
A.B.
Sadly we cannot identify who "A.B." is.The folding of the small card and its size however do reflect the shape and size of a butterfly's wings. VG+.
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Antwerpen: Ruimte Z, 1979
21 x 15cm, 6pp (single hand-folded sheet) black on grey. A "periodical" from the gallery (Nr 1) which announces a show of photographs of Beuys' Coyote aktion by Caroline Tisdall. Internal to the sheet is a text in Dutch "Coyote: I like America and America Likes me". Mild handling creases and a mailed, hand-addressed example. Else VG+.
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London: V&A, 1979
10.8 x 7cm, 1pp, adhesive back ex libris slip issued at a London exhibition. The drawing by Michael Howard was to Finlay's description. Unused. ...